By John Leland Mildred and John Fischer thought their retirement years would be a time for traveling and visiting their grandchildren. Then last September, just as John Fischer was retiring from the post office, Mildred Fischer's mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, came to live with them.

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pawl

A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.